The Eviction Diversion Initiative, which supports tenants at risk of losing their homes, is expanding to more housing courts across the city and state.
The Center and Columbia University Offer Postdoctoral Fellowship
This postdoctoral fellowship will focus primarily on forensic assessment with an opportunity to provide psychotherapy to people returning from incarceration.
Effective Court Communication: Assessing the Need for Language Access Services for Limited English Proficient Litigants in Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking Cases
Ensuring meaningful access to justice for Limited English Proficient (LEP) litigants is an essential responsibility of the justice system. To gauge the status of language access services for litigants in domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking cases, the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for State Courts conducted a needs assessment of courts, government agencies, and community-based organizations in the fall of 2013. This report outlines the findings and makes recommendations for strengthening language access.
Brownsville Youth Court – One of 59 Reasons to Love New York
In case you missed it, New York Magazine highlighted our work with young people in Brownsville, Brooklyn as one of their 59 "Reasons to Love New York."
The Center for Court Innovation seeks to advance the idea of procedural justice—encouraging justice agencies to treat individual arrestees, victims, defendants, and litigants with dignity and respect.
Procedural justice, and its intersections with race, policing, and justice system legitimacy, was a major theme of our summit on criminal justice challenges and innovative reform efforts.
According to a newly-released randomized controlled trial, the Harlem Parole Reentry Court has reduced re-offending and improved employment outcomes for parolees returning to Harlem from prison.
